# Categories view does not keep vertical scroll position
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/categories-view-does-not-keep-vertical-scroll-position/48702
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [August 16, 2016, 4:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/categories-view-does-not-keep-vertical-scroll-position/48702 "2016-08-16T16:20:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@ljpp](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ljpp)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2016, 4:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/categories-view-does-not-keep-vertical-scroll-position/48702/1 "2016-08-16T16:20:21Z")
The vertical scroll position of the Categories view is lost when a user enters a topic and then hits the back button of the browser. In topic list views it works as expected.
**Repro steps:**
- Go to [Categories](https://meta.discourse.org/categories)
- Scroll down and click on a topic title in Releases category
- Press the browser back button
→ The top of the Category listing is shown, not the Releases category you just scrolled to.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2016, 10:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/categories-view-does-not-keep-vertical-scroll-position/48702/2 "2016-08-16T22:58:51Z")
Why would it? This was never a feature.
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2016, 1:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/categories-view-does-not-keep-vertical-scroll-position/48702/3 "2016-08-17T01:25:04Z")
This is currently working on the Latest page.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2016, 2:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/categories-view-does-not-keep-vertical-scroll-position/48702/4 "2016-08-17T02:17:37Z")
Correct but categories is a totally different page with completely different contents.
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### Author:  [@ljpp](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ljpp)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2016, 5:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/categories-view-does-not-keep-vertical-scroll-position/48702/5 "2016-08-17T05:18:21Z")
The use case is same for Categories and the Latest.
User scrolls downwards, skimming through the Topic headlines. So it may be a different page, but because it does have Topic headline links it serves partially the same purpose. Now the UX is incoherent.
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2016, 10:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/categories-view-does-not-keep-vertical-scroll-position/48702/6 "2016-08-17T10:23:44Z")
This might be more pertinent with the [new categories layout](https://meta.discourse.org/t/redesigning-the-default-category-page/46783/19) that is being discussed.
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### Author:  [@ljpp](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ljpp)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2017, 8:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/categories-view-does-not-keep-vertical-scroll-position/48702/7 "2017-03-07T20:46:07Z")
This UX is also broken in the new view (which I do not use on my instances). For the new view this is even more relevant, as it shows a long list of topics.
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### Author:  [@ljpp](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ljpp)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2018, 3:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/categories-view-does-not-keep-vertical-scroll-position/48702/8 "2018-01-19T15:36:02Z")
I guess this is not on the Development roadmap? This is rather bad UX, especially with the ”new” Categories view that also lists topics.